Tuesday, 10 August 2010

This was my first attempt at crazy patchwork. A friend lent me a book on it and I did enjoy making it. I was so inspired at the time that I thought I would go on an make a quilt but as yet have not bothered.

My problem is that I flit from craft to craft but do always return to knitting. But I like crazy patchwork more than normal, you can get away without needing to be so precise with joins etc!!

I had a craze of making these brooches a while ago and was really pleased with them. I used fancy yarns and just made the pompoms with a small amount of yarn and then added ribbon and a button or bead to the top and brooch pin to the back. It added a piece of fabric with bondaweb to the back first as I thought this would help hold the whole thing together.
Lots of my friends now have one and I have lots of different colourways

A while ago I bought a book mark as a present for a friend which was made from a length of ribbon with a few beads added to each end. I tried to copy this and got in a great mess trying to clamp a metal clip to the end of the ribbon. Then I had an idea to try added a mini suffolk punch to each end instead.

I was quite pleased with the result and have now wondered what they would be like with mini pompoms on the end?

Been meaning to record my crafty pursuits for ages and now at last here is one of them
This hat is from a Kim Hargreaves pattern. Though mine is nowhere near at baggy as the pattern. Think my year was a lot thinner.
I also added a curly edge flower from a design by Belinda Harris Reid
I love the flowers and really enjoy knitting them, they take about an hour to knit (for me anyway) and I have then added a little bit of seaweed stitch to the centre of some of them.
Must try the hat again with thicker yarn